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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT WAS a beautiful morning in the
late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A
boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such
breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage
till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right
across the promontory with a cheerful heart. I was far from being a
native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland
stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon Darnaway, after a poor, rough
youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in the
islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and
when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros, the sea-girt
farm, had remained in his possession. It brought him in nothing but
the means of life, as I was well aware; but he was a man whom
ill-fortune had pursued; he feared, cumbered as he was with the
young child, to make a fresh adventure upon life; and remained in
Aros, biting his nails at destiny. Years passed over his head in
that isolation, and brought neither help nor contentment. Meantime
our family was dying out in the lowlands; there is little luck for
any of that race; and perhaps my father was the luckiest of all,
for not only was he one of the last to die, but he left a son to
his name and a little money to support it. I was a student of
Edinburgh University, living well enough at my own charges, but
without kith or kin; when some news of me found its way to Uncle
Gordon on the Ross of Grisapol; and he, as he was a man who held
blood thicker than water, wrote to me the day he heard of my
existence, and taught me to count Aros as my home.
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